Horowitz, Anthony

Thirty-five stories from around the world, mostly myths from ancient Greece, but also tales from the Norse, Chinese, English, and American Indians.

Uniting forces with the CIA, spy Alex Rider battles a terrorist who wants Russia to once again be a world power.

After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.

An enormous storm unleashes evil forces that threaten to end the world, and the Gatekeepers--Matt, Pedro, Scott, Jamie, and Scar--come together to prevent destruction.

After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.

Days after the encounter at the Swiss waterfall that claimed the lives of Sherlock Holmes and criminal mastermind Professor Moriarty, Pinkerton detective agent Frederick Chase and Scotland Yard Inspector Athelney Jones, a devoted student of Holmes's methods of investigation and deduction, must track down a sinister figure who is determined to stake his claim as Moriarty's successor.

While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.

"James Bond won his battle with criminal mastermind Auric Goldfinger, but a whole new war is about to begin. With glamourous Pussy Galore by his side--and in his bed--Bond arrives home from America to the news that SMERSH, the deadly Soviety counterintelligence agency, plans to sabotage an international Grand Prix. He must play a high-speed game of cat and mouse on the track to stop them, but a chance encounter with a mysterious Korean millionaire, Jason Sin, warns him that the scheme is only the Soviets' opening move"--Dust jacket.

A collection of thirty-five myths from around the world.